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Yeah the AMD APU laptops are absolutely amazing. Be ready though, their Linux support is quite possibly the worst I have ever experienced in almost 30 years of
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
Yeah the AMD APU laptops are absolutely amazing. Be ready though, their Linux support is quite possibly the worst I have ever experienced in almost 30 years of using Linux. I'm typing this right now on a first gen Ryzen APU laptop (Raven Ridge) and it took more than three years for enough kernel bugs to be fixed that plain old Ubuntu LTS wouldn't constantly crash or hard lockup randomly. There were straight up silicon bugs and major sleep state issues that had to be sorted out and worked around with this early generation of chips. It's finally a great machine but it really soured me on the quality of AMD GPU code in the kernel--apparently it is a huge black box even to folks like Linus and can be quite the bug farm.
- dagw 5y agoBe ready though, their Linux support is quite possibly the worst I have ever experienced in almost 30 years of using Linux. So it's not just me :) I bought a Ryzen APU since everybody kept telling me that AMD GPUs where the best when it came to Linux support, and it has been a massive pain. It finally runs almost stable using the latest Pop_OS, but it has been a not fun journey to get here.
- holografix 5y agoOh the “joys” of Linux. Precisely why I use a Mac. However everyone and then I get tempted.
- devKnight 5y agoi've been running a ryzen 5 2500u laptop for the last 2 or so years. no issues at all getting things running with the various distros i've used